Approximately 12 Unfinished Sewing Projects

Princely Tiger Moth (Chrysocale principalis), family Erebidae, Guatemala

photograph by Helh LH

Io Moth (Automeris io), male, family Saturniidae, OK, USA

photograph by Susan Sanders

Thinking of becoming a guy that thinks wolves are the most badass and aspirational animal, but about ants. Like wearing t-shirts about being loyal to my Queen and training to bench 5x my bodyweight. Studying ant warfare. Posting shit like this

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by @florijnp on instagram

Lanternfly (Pyrops gunjii), family Fulgoridae, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

photograph by Nicky Bay

the term "phasmid," meaning "stick insect," comes from a latin word meaning "apparition" or "phantom," due to the creatures' ability to hide in plain sight, and then move around and scare people.

the largest phasmids likely remain undiscovered; the longest insect known to science was a phasmid from a species that remains formally unnamed and undescribed, even since being captured for the first time in china in 2014.

a female specimen of the quasi-mythical australian species of gargantuan stick insect was sought by a curator of museum victoria for three years before he encountered one, also in 2014. upon realizing what it was, he says, “I started screaming."

This fossil of a frog-legged beetle from Colorado is so perfectly preserved that you can still see the pattern on its wing cases! It was named Pulchritudo attenboroughi to honor David Attenborough.

Here's a digital reconstruction of how it would look with wings closed:

Source: Krell & Vitalli

Malaysian moon moth, Actias maenas, Saturniidae

Photographed by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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Blue Clipper (Parthenos sylvia cyaneus), family Nymphalidae, Sri Lanka

photograph by Ranmini Gunasekera

Metallic emerald cockroach, Pseudoglomeris manifica, Blaberidae

Found in Vietnam and southern China

Photo 1 by Frupus, 2-3 by elntangle, and 4 by n0xas

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by @makrozdjecia on instagram

Millipede assassin bug, Apocaucus sp., Ectrichodiinae, Reduviidae

Found in Thailand

Photos 1-2 by epiphytophile and 3 by goong

Green Flash (Artipe eryx excellens), family Lycaenidae, Malaysia

photograph by LC Goh

Euproctis acmaea, Indonesia.

by David Fischer

Heavy metal tortoise beetle I found in the cloud forests of Ecuador

I wonder what's even the advantage of having big holes in its elytra. They don't get caught on things?? Maybe it's more camouflaging.

Looking at more pictures of various Acromis (the genus of beetles that all look like this), it seems like the holes aren't actually genetic, but rather a VERY common form of wearing out, probably because the elytras are most thin and fragile in those places. So my guess is, the holes have no advantage, they're just not enough of a bother that they act negatively on selection for the beetles that end up with them one way or another.

Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis, Noctuidae

Photographed in France by Matthieu Berroneau

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